ded 
Lesley. 570 [Nov. 1, 1872. 
6, 7, 8 and 9, all are productive. No. 9, which is the least productive of 
the four, was located under restriction to the Lower Campbell tract. 
No. 8, the most productive, was the last one I located without restriction. 
Nos. 6 and 7 were both down before any other well was started in the 
Whiskey Run or Queenstown Run field. The same principles which 
guided the locating these wells, led me to advise the Brady’s Bend Iron 
Company against trying the Upper Campbell tract, and the results of 
boring there by other parties have confirmed their correctness, and there 
have been so many confirmations that my confidence in the principles 
amounts to conviction. 
In opening the Whiskey Run or Queenstown Run field, I simply fol- 
lowed the general line of strike from the Armstrong Run field; but in 
locating individual wells I sought lines and areas of deposition of coarse 
pebbles in the ‘“‘sandrocks”’ out of broken condition of the ‘‘sandrocks.’’ 
[ had not so far completed the research into the laws which govern the 
‘direction and position of these lines and areas that I felt free to com- 
municate them when I left the oil country, but hope to push ‘the inves- 
tigations further hereafter. Meanwhile it may be of some -interest that 
the above results have followed an effort.pursued by scientific methods 
to find and apply such laws. 
Yours, very respectfully, 
JAMES E. MILLS, 
Vice President Big Muddy Iron Company. 
Stated Meeting, November 15th, 1872. 
Present, nine members. 
Vice-President, Mr. Franny, in the Chair. 
A photograph ‘of Mr. H. M. Phillips was received for in- 
‘sertion in the Album. 
Letters accepting membership were received from Mr. 
Isaac Norris, Jr., dated Philadelphia, October 31st, 1872, 
and from Mr. A. J. Cassatt, dated 2030 Delancey Place, 
Philadelphia, November 6th, 1872. 
Letters of acknowledgment were received from the 
Smithsonian Institution (Proc., No. 78), and the Nat. Verein 
at Bremen (87), September 7th, 1872. 
Donations for the Library were reported from the St. 
Petersburg Observatory; Antiquarian Society at Copen- 
hagen; R. Academy at Berlin; German Anthropological 
Society; Museum of Natural History at Paris; Paris An- 
thropological Society ; Annales des Mines; Revue Politique; 
Nature; L. & H. 8. Quebec; Boston 8. N. H.; Yale College; 
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